Nick Saban, Brian Kelly both downplay NFL interest

Posted by Michael David Smith on January 5, 2013, 12:32 PM EDT

AP

Both of the coaches who have led their team to Monday’s college football national championship game have been linked to NFL rumors. Both of them attempted today to downplay any interest in leaving college for the pros.

Alabama’s Nick Saban, who claimed while he was the Dolphins’ head coach that he wouldn’t leave for Alabama right up until he left for Alabama, is now saying that he doesn’t believe he has anything he needs to accomplish in the NFL.

It’s hard to take coaches at their word at this time of year, and it’s particularly hard to take Saban at his word given his track record. But if Saban or Kelly have any interest in leaving, they’re not letting on.

Both of these guys have proven that they are scum. If they say they aren’t leaving it seems like a pretty safe bet they’ll be gone if someone wants them. Why would anyone want Brian Kelly after maybe 3 good years of coaching someone else’s recruits (2 in cincy and one at nd)?

Saban didn’t claim he wasn’t going to Alabama right up until he left for Tuscaloosa. Alabama approached his agent while the Dolphins season was still in progress, and Saban said he couldn’t discuss with them until the Dolphins season was over. At that point, no formal offer had been made. I got that from a member of the Alabama Board of Trustees.

The press asked Saban about Alabama at every Dolphins press conference, and he refused to discuss it. Finally, he said he wasn’t going to Alabama. He should have told them to piss off. That was his big mistake. Once the Dolphins season ended, Alabama came back with an offer and he took it. His family was miserable in Miami, and the offer was a pay cut from what he was then making in the NFL. Dolphins owner Wayne Huizenga said there were no hard feelings and he didn’t blame Saban for leaving given his family circumstances. That whole situation has been blown ridiculously out of proportion.

As a Bama fan, I’d like him to stay. But if, after the title game, he wants to return to the NFL, he will do so with my blessing.

Brian Kelly ain’t going anywhere and Saban isn’t either, except I think Saban will leave eventually for Texas, as they’ll give him the World after getting rid of Mack Brown. They gotta still A&M’S momentum of college recruiting and winning in Texas.

Haven’t we already learned our lessons with Saban? He wasn’t very good at all in Miami and then he jumped back to college out of nowhere. I can’t believe there are still NFL teams foolish enough to even consider Nick Saban anymore.

Nice job photographer. Why aren’t they both standing under their respective university logos?
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Because that’s an exceedingly bad PhotoShop job.
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The Prophet says:

I can’t believe there are still NFL teams foolish enough to even consider Nick Saban anymore.
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It only takes one fool, and as in other sports, there’s almost always one fool with a job available.

I hope Kelly knows that in the NFL, if you demand someone go up on a lift in high wind conditions, he has the right to say, “No”, rather than go up and wind up dead.

I also hope Saban knows that if takes an NFL job and doesn’t like it, walking away may be much harder and much more expensive this time. You can bet there will be some provisions for that in his contract should he decide to go back to the level where he failed before.